Streamline Health Signs Contract with Oregon Health & Science University To Improve Operational Efficiencies via Business Proces

Streamline Health Signs Contract with Oregon Health & Science
University To Improve Operational Efficiencies via Business Process
Re-Engineering 


CINCINNATI, May 9  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LanVision Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ:LANV) dba Streamline Health(TM) today announced that it has signed a
new contract with Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) for its Health
Information Management and Patient Financial Services workflows and document
management solutions.  The contract calls for an unlimited use license for the
large-scale deployment of Streamline Health's solutions throughout the OHSU
enterprise.

  The contract includes the following Streamline Health solutions:

   * accessANYware(TM)                   provides enterprise access to a
                                         patient's medical and financial
                                         records to better coordinate
                                         patient care

   * Completion Workflow                 expedites the completion of the
                                         medical record and accelerates the
                                         completion of billing services

   * Release of Information Workflow(TM) facilitates efficient compliance
                                         with requests for patient
                                         information from third party
                                         requestors

   * codingANYware(TM)                   improves coding turnaround time by
                                         prioritizing and pushing work tasks
                                         to staff coders on campus or in
                                         remote locations, including home-
                                         based employees

   * Document Conversion Services        migrates OHSU's existing repository
                                         of document images from their
                                         existing vendor to the Streamline
                                         Health solutions

   * Custom Workflow Toolkit             allows OHSU to internally develop
                                         and optimize their own unique
                                         workflow solutions



The contract also includes integration of Streamline Health's solutions to
OHSU's existing information systems, including the Epic Care clinical
information system from Epic Systems.

Located in Portland Oregon, the OHSU Health System includes OHSU Hospital,
Doernbecher Children's Hospital, and dozens of primary care and specialty
clinics serving every county in Oregon.  The health system also includes four
schools, multiple research institutes and several outreach and community
service units.  In addition, OHSU has a research and education West Campus in
Hillsboro, and multiple education and patient care facilities throughout the
state.  OHSU meets the health care services needs of more than 175,500 medical
and dental patients annually, who make up approximately 737,670 patient visits
each year.  OHSU is the state's fifth largest employer and Portland's largest.

John Kenagy, chief information officer at OHSU commented, "OHSU is committed to
high quality health care.  To achieve that goal, we selected Streamline
Health's comprehensive workflow and document management solutions to help
streamline our document intensive environments and to ensure timely access to
critical health information from virtually any location.  We are excited to
move forward on our business process re-engineering initiatives and deployment
of a true enterprise-wide workflow and document management solution.  This
partnership will allow OHSU to improve efficiencies, augment patient care,
accelerate cash flow and enhance decision making processes."

J. Brian Patsy, president and chief executive officer of Streamline Health,
remarked, "We are very pleased to include OHSU among our growing list of
prestigious customers.  Our workflow-based solutions solve a critical problem
in multi-entity health care facilities such as OHSU, by linking documents with
existing information systems in the clinical, patient financial services and
administrative departments to streamline information and drive results.  We are
excited about this important strategic partnership with a premier organization
such as OHSU."

About Oregon Health & Science University

The hospitals and clinics of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) provide
leading-edge health care services to patients throughout Oregon and the Pacific
Northwest.

As the state's only health and research university, OHSU blends education,
research, patient care and community outreach into one shared mission: to
improve the well-being of people in Oregon and beyond. Together, these pieces
form the foundation for the university's patient care services.

OHSU's high-quality health care incorporates the latest medical research,
technology and innovation. Nationally recognized clinical researchers at OHSU
take their knowledge from the laboratory directly to the patient.  This
proximity between medical breakthrough and applied health care enables a level
of treatment unmatched anywhere else in the state.  OHSU's outstanding health
care services continue to score high points with patients and the general
public. For the third consecutive year, OHSU has earned the Consumer Choice
Award given by the National Research Corporation (NRC).  The award is based on
results from consumer preference surveys conducted by the NRC in the Portland
metro area. NRC survey results showed OHSU leading Portland area hospitals in
clinical services such as Cancer and Neurology, while OHSU Doernbecher was most
preferred for pediatrics. OHSU Hospital was also perceived as having the Best
Image/Reputation, Best Doctors, Widest Range of Services, and Latest
Technologies & Equipment.

About Streamline Health

Streamline Health is a leading supplier of workflow and document management
tools, applications and services that assist strategic business partners,
healthcare organizations, and customers to create and improve operational
efficiencies through business process re-engineering and automating demanding
document-intensive environments.  The company's workflow- based services offer
solutions to inefficient and labor-intensive healthcare business processes
throughout the revenue cycle, such as chart coding, abstracting and completion,
remote physician order processing, pre-admission registration scanning and
signature capture, insurance verification, secondary billing services,
explanation of benefits processing and release of information processing.  The
company's solutions also address the document workflow needs of the Human
Resource and Supply Chain Management departments of the healthcare enterprise.
All solutions are available for purchase or through a remote hosting services
model that better matches customers' capital or operating budget needs.

Streamline Health's solutions create a permanent document-based repository of
historical health information that is complementary and can be seamlessly
integrated with existing disparate clinical, financial and administrative
information systems, providing convenient electronic access to all forms of
patient information from any location, including access using a web-browser
through the Intranet/Internet.  These integrated systems allow providers and
administrators to link systems with documents, which can dramatically improve
the availability of patient information while decreasing direct costs
associated with document retrieval, work-in-process, chart processing, document
retention, and archiving.

Streamline Health provides remote hosting services to various healthcare
providers including University Hospital, a member of The Health Alliance of
Greater Cincinnati, and Children's Medical Center of Columbus, OH.  In
addition, the Company has installed its workflow and document imaging solutions
at leading healthcare providers including Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Albert
Einstein Healthcare Network, Beth Israel Medical Centers, University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center, Medical University Hospital Authority of South
Carolina, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

For additional information, please visit our website at
http://www.streamlinehealth.net/ .

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not historical facts are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks
and uncertainties.  The forward-looking statements contained herein are subject
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impact of competitive products and pricing, product demand and market
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resell Streamline Health products, the ability of the Company to control costs,
availability of products produced from third party vendors, the healthcare
regulatory environment, healthcare information systems budgets, availability of
healthcare information systems trained personnel for implementation of new
systems, as well as maintenance of legacy systems, fluctuations in operating
results and other risks detailed from time to time in the LanVision Systems,
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which reflect management's analysis only as of the date hereof.  The Company
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circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of
unanticipated events. 

DATASOURCE: LanVision Systems, Inc.



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